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Some days, on my way to work, it all feels great, I zoom along,
the bike responds beautifully, I feel strong today, wow. Then I realise, I've got a tail wind. -- Dieter Britz |
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On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 2:06:14 AM UTC-7, db wrote:
Some days, on my way to work, it all feels great, I zoom along, the bike responds beautifully, I feel strong today, wow. Then I realise, I've got a tail wind. -- Dieter Britz The wind was blowing so hard last Thursday that on a descent that I usually averaged about 22 I could barely hold 12. Now THAT makes you feel old and slow. |
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On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 1:13:44 PM UTC-4, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 2:06:14 AM UTC-7, db wrote: Some days, on my way to work, it all feels great, I zoom along, the bike responds beautifully, I feel strong today, wow. Then I realise, I've got a tail wind. -- Dieter Britz The wind was blowing so hard last Thursday that on a descent that I usually averaged about 22 I could barely hold 12. Now THAT makes you feel old and slow. I hear you! I did a ride from Peterborough, Ontario to Toronto, Ontario one day on an MTB with full knobby tires when the wind was VERY strong out of the south. Even on t he hills and pedaling REALLY hard I could get up to about 10 kph. I thumbed a ride and a guy drove me the 20 kms to Whitby, Ontario. That guy's ride saved me 2 hours of hard slugging. Once I turned right towards Toronto it wasn't too bad. |
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On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 3:45:43 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 1:13:44 PM UTC-4, Tom Kunich wrote: On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 2:06:14 AM UTC-7, db wrote: Some days, on my way to work, it all feels great, I zoom along, the bike responds beautifully, I feel strong today, wow. Then I realise, I've got a tail wind. -- Dieter Britz The wind was blowing so hard last Thursday that on a descent that I usually averaged about 22 I could barely hold 12. Now THAT makes you feel old and slow. I hear you! I did a ride from Peterborough, Ontario to Toronto, Ontario one day on an MTB with full knobby tires when the wind was VERY strong out of the south. Even on t he hills and pedaling REALLY hard I could get up to about 10 kph. I thumbed a ride and a guy drove me the 20 kms to Whitby, Ontario. That guy's ride saved me 2 hours of hard slugging. Once I turned right towards Toronto it wasn't too bad. I remember doing a multi-day ride from Toronto to my home in NE Ohio. Riding along the south shore of Lake Erie into a blasting headwind, I was on my on my aero bars for mile after mile after mile, watching my cyclometer say "8 mph.." It takes an immense amount of training to give as much benefit as a 10 mph tailwind, or to overcome the effect of a 10 mph headwind. - Frank Krygowski |
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:17:52 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote: On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 3:45:43 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 1:13:44 PM UTC-4, Tom Kunich wrote: On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 2:06:14 AM UTC-7, db wrote: Some days, on my way to work, it all feels great, I zoom along, the bike responds beautifully, I feel strong today, wow. Then I realise, I've got a tail wind. -- Dieter Britz The wind was blowing so hard last Thursday that on a descent that I usually averaged about 22 I could barely hold 12. Now THAT makes you feel old and slow. I hear you! I did a ride from Peterborough, Ontario to Toronto, Ontario one day on an MTB with full knobby tires when the wind was VERY strong out of the south. Even on t he hills and pedaling REALLY hard I could get up to about 10 kph. I thumbed a ride and a guy drove me the 20 kms to Whitby, Ontario. That guy's ride saved me 2 hours of hard slugging. Once I turned right towards Toronto it wasn't too bad. I remember doing a multi-day ride from Toronto to my home in NE Ohio. Riding along the south shore of Lake Erie into a blasting headwind, I was on my on my aero bars for mile after mile after mile, watching my cyclometer say "8 mph." It takes an immense amount of training to give as much benefit as a 10 mph tailwind, or to overcome the effect of a 10 mph headwind. - Frank Krygowski The real mystery is "why is there always have a head wind when on the way back home" ?-) -- cheers, John B. |
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On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 4:06:14 AM UTC-5, db wrote:
Some days, on my way to work, it all feels great, I zoom along, the bike responds beautifully, I feel strong today, wow. Then I realise, I've got a tail wind. -- Dieter Britz Hmmmm???? I can honestly say I have never ever not known I have a tailwind and think I'm going fast because I am strong. I always know exactly what the wind is doing and know whether it is a positive, negative, or neutral effect. |
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On 11/06/2019 1:07 a.m., John B. wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:17:52 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski wrote: On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 3:45:43 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 1:13:44 PM UTC-4, Tom Kunich wrote: On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 2:06:14 AM UTC-7, db wrote: Some days, on my way to work, it all feels great, I zoom along, the bike responds beautifully, I feel strong today, wow. Then I realise, I've got a tail wind. -- Dieter Britz The wind was blowing so hard last Thursday that on a descent that I usually averaged about 22 I could barely hold 12. Now THAT makes you feel old and slow. I hear you! I did a ride from Peterborough, Ontario to Toronto, Ontario one day on an MTB with full knobby tires when the wind was VERY strong out of the south. Even on t he hills and pedaling REALLY hard I could get up to about 10 kph. I thumbed a ride and a guy drove me the 20 kms to Whitby, Ontario. That guy's ride saved me 2 hours of hard slugging. Once I turned right towards Toronto it wasn't too bad. I remember doing a multi-day ride from Toronto to my home in NE Ohio. Riding along the south shore of Lake Erie into a blasting headwind, I was on my on my aero bars for mile after mile after mile, watching my cyclometer say "8 mph." It takes an immense amount of training to give as much benefit as a 10 mph tailwind, or to overcome the effect of a 10 mph headwind. - Frank Krygowski The real mystery is "why is there always have a head wind when on the way back home" ?-) -- cheers, John B. No, the real mystery is why there is always a head wind. |
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:38:10 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: I've had more trouble with "false flats." I remember a hard, hot day on one solo bike tour. I stopped in the shade and chatted with a homeowner, telling him "I may be getting too old for this." He said "Well, do you realize you've been gaining elevation for 20 miles?" I had the opposite experience once. I coasted for miles, all the time thinking that I'd hate that stretch of road on the way home. But on the way back, I hardly noticed the climb. The slope had been exactly steep enough to overcome wind resistance. (Probably helped that I'd slept twice before returning.) Then there was the time I got lost on the way home from Altamont because my turn was at the top of an exhausting climb -- and I'd been up New Salem Hill a few times since I'd last been to Altamont. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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